Vista Activation in offline mode

Hi guys

Any idea on how to activate vista offline (with no internet connection)??
Number of machines less then 20.
Isolated network from internet.

Thx

You would have to use the phone activation method on each. Click the start
orb, type "slui 4" (without the quotes) and hit <enter> to begin.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Waleed Al Mandari" <> wrote in message
news:E7807E78-3EF8-48AB-9281-...
> Hi guys
>
> Any idea on how to activate vista offline (with no internet connection)??
> Number of machines less then 20.
> Isolated network from internet.
>
> Thx

"Waleed Al Mandari" <> wrote in message
news:E7807E78-3EF8-48AB-9281-...
> Hi guys
>
> Any idea on how to activate vista offline (with no internet connection)??
> Number of machines less then 20.
> Isolated network from internet.
>
> Thx

As well as individual telephone activations as Rick mentions - if you are
using volume licensing which you can get for more then 5 licenses then you
could activate using a KMS (Key Management Server) on your local network.
see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929712
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/r...l/default.mspx

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Mike Brannigan

Hello,
If we are talking Windows Vista to use KMS the count has to be 25 to begin
activating.
You can buy Volume License agreements with a minmum of 5, however you need
to use a MAK key unless you have 25 machines that can communicate to the
KMS server.
But if you are using a Volume licensing, you can use VAMT to collect the
information on those machines,
hook that one machine to the Internet to get the activation codes, then put
it back in that room to activate those machines.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DD8-1B2C-4DA4-
A530-80F26F0F9A99&mg_id=10109&displaylang=en

Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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| >"Waleed Al Mandari" <> wrote in message
| >news:E7807E78-3EF8-48AB-9281-...
| >> Hi guys
| >>
| >> Any idea on how to activate vista offline (with no internet
connection)??
| >> Number of machines less then 20.
| >> Isolated network from internet.
| >>
| >> Thx
| >
| >As well as individual telephone activations as Rick mentions - if you
are
| >using volume licensing which you can get for more then 5 licenses then
you
| >could activate using a KMS (Key Management Server) on your local network.
| >see
| >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929712
| >http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/r...l/default.mspx
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| >Mike Brannigan
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